Learning/Teaching a Language on NSM

[Jub3r7]

I had an idea the other day that since we have various languages spoken on this forum, we could try to teach each other the languages that we know or are learning in school.

Your teaching post might include a small fact about grammar/pronunciation and 5 vocabulary words to learn for a day.
For example, I'm going to try to teach you Latin:

Day 1
Grammar: All c's are hard, like in "cat", but not like in "centimeter".
All v's are pronounced like w's. So "Salve" (hello) would be pronounced "Sall Way".

Vocabulary:
Latin                  English
atrium                atrium
canis                 dog
coquus              cook (noun)
filius                  son
hortus               garden

And that's all you have to learn/teach for one day. 
_{I want to learn French, Roz~. (hint hint)}

[DrP]

There are other people here who speak French.

I can teach basics...

[fabbemannen]

Well, some normal frases perhaps. Learning grammar is to much work, I can answer questions though
Oh well, one thing to know is that we aren't so polite towards elders like in, for example, german
We simply say the names (often just the firstname, or when in business, secondname)

English     Swedish (svenska)
Hi                       Hej
How are you?        Hur mÃ¥r du?
Good morning        God morgon
 -day                   -dag
 -evening              -kväll
 -night                 -natt
Thank you            Tack (tackar)

What about adding in so everyone needs to say a random word/sentence?
Useless = värdelös

[DrP]

Well, Here are some basics.

anglais               français
Hello                Bonjour
Good Bye         Au revoir
How Are You    Comment ça va (lt. How's it going)/ Comment allez-vous (formal) and Comment vas-tu (inf. lit. How are you doing)
Thank you        Merci
Please             S'il vous plaît/S'il te plaît (lit. if it pleases you)

Basic Sentences
J'ai faim. (I am hungry -- lit. I have hunger)
Où sont les toilettes/ le W-C (pron. Vay-Say) (Where is the bathroom)
Je t'aime (I love you)
Qu'est-ce qui se passe? (What's going on)

Basic Verbs au Présent (In the Present)

      Avoir - to have           Être - to be
je                j'ai                        je suis            I                      -- NOTE, when a word that ends with a rounded vowel (a,e or o), and the next word begins with one, then you cut the vowel from the end and add an
tu                tu as                     tu es              you (inf)                         apostrophe. this is called an elision
il/elle on       il a                       il  est           he/she/one
nous            avons                   sommes      we
vous            avez                     êtes           you (for)
ils/elles        ont                       sont           they/they (females)

NOTE: When pronouncing words, the last consonant is not usually pronounced unless the next word proceeds with a vowel. This is called a liaison There are exceptions, but im not going to say them.

And I just realized there is NO way I can be a french teacher... Roz can do that. If you have questions about what I said, I can elaborate on them!

[FallenPianist]

Everything's good DrP, except a little mistake : Comment allez-vous, the t isn't written, only pronounced (we do a liaision)

But you did a really good job in explaining the basics

[Roz~]

Yep he did. Hopefully he didn't try to explain verbs...

[DrP]

I dont want to.

Roz, you take it from here.

[Roz~]

Haha, dunno what I should talk about. Numbers maybe?

[fingerz]

I speak Japanese!

[fabbemannen]

I speak Japanese!

Konnichiwa!

[fingerz]

Ohaiyou gozaimasu! Onamaewa?

[Jub3r7]

Day 2
Grammar:
The nominative verbs the accusative:
coquus canem coquit, would be "The cook cooks the dog."
Cook    dog     cooks

If it ends in "m", it's most likely accusative.


Vocabulary:
Latin            English
in                in, on
laborat         works
mater           mother
pater           father
sedet           sit

Practice translation:
mater in atrium sedet.

[KefkaticFanatic]

Ohaiyou gozaimasu! Onamaewa?

You wouldn't use the formal form of 名前 in casual conversation.  Or even add the ã"ざã,,ます after おはã,,ã,ˆã†.

[fingerz]

Be nice!

I'm learning casual sentence forms now. Besides, it's better practice to use full sentences anyway.

[fabbemannen]

I'm really not good in japanese. I needed more points in school so I could get to highschool, and for that I needed a language.
So I jumped in the japanese-class 3 month's after everyone else. I still havn't catched up =P

I've forgot most of my german too! 3 years in school really doesn't help if you never speak it